Season 1

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  7.3/10611 votes

  Seize Power

  Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 7/9/2021

  Interested in becoming a tyrant? There are rules, and the playbook for a rise to dictatorship starts with one of history's most brutal: Adolf Hitler.

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  7.5/10574 votes

  Crush Your Rivals

  Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 7/9/2021

  You've secured your place at the top, but maintaining power means watching your back. Nobody did that better or more ruthlessly than Saddam Hussein.

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  7.3/10508 votes

  Reign Through Terror

  Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 7/9/2021

  When keeping your population under control, is it better to be loved or feared? Idi Amin certainly thought he knew the right answer to that question.

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  7.3/10503 votes

  Control the Truth

  Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 7/9/2021

  Through public relations spin, revisionist history and censorship. Soviet autocrat Joseph Stalin found a certain flexibility with the truth useful.

  Director: Unknown

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  7.2/10477 votes

  Create a New Society

  Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 7/9/2021

  Free speech? Right to assembly? Rebel-turned-dictator Muammar Gaddafi realized that civil liberties had to go when reshaping society. But he got soft.

  Director: Unknown

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  7.4/10463 votes

  Rule Forever

  Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 7/9/2021

  Seizing power is hard, but keeping it is harder. In North Korea, the Kim dynasty unlocked the secret to ruling forever: They declared themselves gods.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown